The Thing

Name: The Thing
Director: John Carpenter
Released: 1981
Cast: Keith David, Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, T.K. Carter

by John Carpenter1h491981United States

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A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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The Thing

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Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

They Live

Prince of Darkness

Assault on Precinct 13

From the same year

La Chèvre

Passion

The Night of the Shooting Stars

With the same cast

Keith David

They Live

There's Something About Mary

Platoon

Kurt Russell

Escape from New York

Death Proof

Used Cars

David Clennon

Missing

Donald Moffat

Rachel, Rachel

The Terminal Man

Thomas G. Waites

The Warriors

Richard Masur

Heaven's Gate

Risky Business

Charles Hallahan

Pale Rider

Twilight Zone: The Movie

This film is recommended by

Joon-Ho Bong

Céline Sciamma

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Justine Triet

Sean Baker

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"American Independent Cinema 1978-1990"